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Problem Note 65868: Saving a report distribution in SAS® Visual Analytics Designer fails with "The name is invalid"
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When you attempt to save a report distribution in SAS Visual Analytics Designer, you might see the error shown in the following display:
This error occurs if you are logged on to SAS Visual Analytics with an ID that contains white spaces or any of the characters listed in the error message. The error does not occur if recipients have invalid characters in their user names. As a workaround, you can create the distribution with a user who does not have invalid characters in the user ID.
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Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS Visual Analytics | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 7.5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Linux for x64 | 7.5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||||